Silo-hoop.



H.E. BOL'DTA slLo' H0012 APPLICATION FILED} ULY17,

Pawntegl Mar. 10, 1914 2 Bunions-SHEET 2.

RJ/ 0. w? W A Ww Z 0 PATENT OFFllC/F HERMAN E. BOLDT, 0F SHEBOYGAN FALLS, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO WOOD TIRE SILO COMPANY, OF SHEBOYGAN FALLS, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF WISCONSIN.

sILo-nooP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 10, 191d.

Application filed July 17, 1912. Serial No. 709,882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN E. Boner, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sheboygan Falls, county of, Sheboygan, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful 1m rove'ments in Silo-Hoops, of which the ollowing is a specification.

M invention relates to improvements in silo oops. i

The object of my invention is to provide a silo hoop which may not only be more quickly and cheaply made by the process hereinafter described than those heretofore used in the construction of silos, but a hoop which may be made either angular, circular, or angular in part and circular in )art, to conform to the space provided there or, and one which may also be made in a plurality of separate sections, which sections are adapted to be stacked and secured together in a small space for the purpose of shipping and storing, and the separate pieces of the hoo thereafter quickly secured together by nns illed labor, preparatory to being used in the construction of a silo.

My invention is further explained by ref- 'eren'ce to the accompanying drawings, in which-'- Figure 1 represents a plan view of a guide form. used in the manufacture of the hoop sections in which form is shown a plurality of hoop members comprising several short pieces of boards as arranged in the construction of the hoop section. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the same device shown in Fig. 1, with the hoo hereinafter as boar s, removed. Fig. 3 is a side view of one end of the form, sh0wing several boards arranged thereon preparatoryto being nailed together. Fig. 4 1s a perspective view of a plurality of boards forming one end of one of the separable sections of the hoop as the same appears whenmailed together. Fig. .5 is a perspectiveview of the opposite end of a hoop section, which is ada ted to be secured to the next adjacent on of the hoop section shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 represents a side view of a silo, part broken away, showing the manner of using several complete hoops in the constructionof a silo.

Like parts are identified by the same refmembers, referred to erence numerals throughout the several views.

The guide-form shown in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive, comprises the vertical member 1 and the horizontal members 2, which are preferably formed of metal, the parts 1 and 2 being secured together by screws, or in any other convenient manner. It will be understood that the members 1 and 2 may, if desired, be made of wood or other suitable material, and they may be made circular, as shown, or angulur, or in part angular and in part circular.

3 represents the separate boards, comprising the hoop sections. The boards 3 may be made of a cheap quality of lumber and they are arran ed in overlapping series 4 5, 6 and 7. Tide number of series of overlapping boards may, however, be increased or diminished, as desired. That the hoop sec tions may, when completed, have the maximum strength, the meeting ends of the boards 3 of one series, are arranged to break joints with the meetin ends of the next succeeding series. In. ot or words, the central portion of one series of boards 18 located above the meeting ends of the boards of the next adjacent series. To provide for.

thus overlapping the boards 3 of the several series a uniform distance, I preferably provide the guide form with a plurality of etc pins 8, 9, 10 and 11, which are supporte from the vertical sides of the member 1 at uniform distances apart, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. Thus it is obvious that when laying the first series 4 of boards, one end of the first board of the series 4 is )laced a ainst the stop pin 8, when the other cards 0 such series are arrangedin a horizontal plane so as to abut against each other as shown in Fi 3 and 4. When. all of the membersil 0' one series have been thus laid,

the other series 5, 6 and 7 are in like manner laid one above the other, as shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5.

* It will be obvious that by the process thus described, the boards of the second and each succeeding series, will overlap the ends of the boards of each receding series a llIllform distance, where y all the boards of the several series may not only be quickly laid in their proper relative position to each '60 It, will also be understood that the hoe;

other, but they may be also retained in such made for silos of large dimensions, such 65 position until they have been nailed or otherhoops may be sub ivlded to l'orm a quarter wise secured together. or even a less po: on or a circle, and that It, will also be understood that by the when the rows are nnttle for smaller silos,

process described, all the boards of a single y be made to describe a section are arranged in their proper rclat-i e le. Clhe length of the hoop 70 position to each other before being ed se a; --a us respect may, however, be

together. When the boards of the sever varied to meet the equirements or convenseries have been thus arranged together, ience the ioanuiiaetaren preferably use nails of suliicient lon to understood that the hoop pass entirely through all the boards oi. such may be secured together 75 section, whereby the nails driven into the v form for storuppenseries of boards will pass from "thence when desirous to down through the boards of each succeeding in the constriction oi a silo, the

series below. one above the When all the boards of the hoop section es iron the ioandationso ,have been thus nailed together from one side, he silo, substantially as shown a scribing or marking instrument is em. lea thus supported, the hate ployed for scribing two circular lines upon I ily nailed. to the the upper series of boards; In thus scribing; inner sur ,ce oi? the several hoops, and the or marking the hoop sections, a guide bea Wall Ii? nailed to the exterior sur- 85' ing of the scribing instrument used for each I a thehoops serve to purpose, is placed against. v I l. a ii? at, the desired ani- Wall. of the member 1, while the whe eby a narrow space member of such scribing ins walls, For conplaced in contact with the upper s hi8 several hoops so the hoop section, whereby the 1 not-her at; the restrnnient is caused to describe rerticalstandcentric with the circle of the ver "aid standards her 1, as indicated by the dotted line vstances apart a When one circular line has been thus scrib aces of said hoops, 95 near the outer edge of the hoop section, 5 g hoop above the scribing instrument is adjust to :Ec cm the hoop below, line concentric therewith the in. used in the construe of such section, indicated by the do line 13. ll" hen the boards have ti nailed together and scribed upon one side, the hoop section thus made is remo'vec from v the guide form and inverted, vwhen they are 40 all again nailed togetl'ier fr side of such hoop section. n the hoop section's have been thus n iled from 'b-; sides and ma llBCl, they placed apt.w saw when they are cut e r to circle described by dot?- 1. If r I ivinufaeta e a sectional 13, whereby the surplus material and hnoclr-e upon the exterior and interior sides of said rate hoop scribed inarhsdlz and 13 are removed, when. layers, the ,hoop sections, the of which are shown in Figs. and l, are ti ereby complete and ready for storage, shipment. or use. layers, lS'Uell VVhileI have shown and thus far describeclends of the several sections, so that, when the'hoop sections of circular form, it will be the several sections are assembled in a hoop, obvious that with slight modifications, such the ear cf the layers of one section break sections may be made angular, or in part joints .1 the"; 'fthe abutting section, and.

angular and in part circular, as abeves ite i, I the sections may no secured together to term 120 and that when such modified torn is of hoo hoop by nailii'ig chi-o2 "lithe overlapping sections are thus made, the shape 0 f the several. guideform' must be changed accor i rticle oi manufacture a sectional '7 ch uO'l'iil silo hoop, comprisin sepavalone, ea i formed several 125 3 of short boards,

igr joints w th ie layers being ins distance eoart before th vertical walls 16 l are secured thereto, vertical I"? are preferably formed of a: other suitable lumber cribed my invention, wha d desire tosecnre iii-etiis, i

ede up or? several boards,

loci arrang d to U ooards of other tions may be made to form a quart a, third or any other so; portion of a hoop u 3 a silo. When, how c in I sepa- 10'v l oughout the body and at the 115,

nailed. to each other and the several layers geiher by nailing through such ends to make I extending one beyol'xd another at Lhe ends of a complete hoop. 10 each section, and in reverse order at oppo- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature site ends of the section, so that, when the sevin the presence of two witnesses. m-zzlsections ere assembled in a hoop the HERMAN E. BOLDT. end of the layers of one section overlap and Witnesses: break joints with those of the abutting sec 0. I). Iiumsoxmnnnn,

tion, and the sections may be secured 0- A. L. LEAVENS. 

